A/N: Too much salt for anyone to handle. That is all.


Have King and Blake hold Ren back.

Call for Nora to come out.

This could be a trap.

Ren tries to rush forward, but King and Blake hold him back.

"Let go of me! Nora!" Ren struggles against their hold, but he's too exhausted to really do much. Tears stream down his face as he continues to try anyway.

Ruby sympathizes with him; having just lost Pyrrha, and now suddenly finding Nora. Ruby was worried though, for all they know it might be an entity pretending to be Nora. Ruby stays well away from the door and raises a cupped hand near her mouth as she calls out.

"Nora? Can you come out here?"

There's a slight pause before she answers.

"I can't."

Take a look inside with the flashlight before you do anything.

Open the door carefully.

Ruby nears the door. She doesn't have the flashlight since it was with Pyrrha before she changed.

Ruby opens the door slowly. The light from the lit hallway floods into the dark one.

Nora is here.

She is sitting on the ground, leaning against a wall. Most of Nora's left leg is missing. She also has small scratches on her face that are bleeding a bit, but not as much as her leg. It looks as if it was torn off at the knee. The bone can be seen protruding out of the stump. She looks absolutely exhausted.

Let Ren go to Nora.

Tend to her wounds.

Ruby motions her hand toward the others in a signal to let Ren go. King hesitates at first but complies. Ren takes a few tentative steps forward. Everyone else either stands outside the doorway peeking in, or trails cautiously behind Ren.

As Ren approaches her, a small, tired smile shows on Nora's face. Upon reaching her he kneels down next to her.

"Nora...?"

Nora continues to smile at him as she slowly raises the hand up. She gradually reaches over to him and gently touches his nose with her forefinger.

"Boop..."

Her hand trembles a lot as she does this action, and soon it slips away from his face. There was blood on her fingertip, so when she touched his nose it left some blood on it.

Ren begins to tear up, but the tears don't fall just yet. He lets out a halfhearted laugh before taking Nora's face in his hands, gently kisses her.

He turns his head to look back at the group. "Ruby, I'll take care of it. Will you lend me the first aid kit?" He says.

Give Ren the first aid kit.

Help him if he needs it.

Ruby pulls the kit out and hands it to Ren before stepping away again. He thanks her and turns his attention on Nora.

"I'm gonna patch you up, don't worry."

He cleans the stump of her leg as best as he can before wrapping it in clean bandages. He puts band-aids on her face as well. Nora smiles at him and gives him a thumbs up.

"You're a good guy, Ren."

Ask Nora what happened.

"I, I, I...Why don't I remember?" Nora's body begins to shake uncontrollably as she says this. Her pupils turn red, and fangs begin to poke out from her upper lip.

"Ren! Get away from her! She's changing!" King shouts.

Ren quickly turns to look at the others, an angry expression on his face. The blood on his nose begins to emit smoke.

"NO! She's fine." While he does this Nora grabs at her throat and coughs violently, choking on the smoke coming from her mouth. It seeps from her eyes as well, despite how she has them shut tight.

He turns back to Nora and holds her close. She grabs onto his arm, and now they're both trembling, if not for different reasons.

"It's going to be okay. I promise." Tears are pouring down his face.

Nora's transformation is happening quickly. Her entire mouth is filled with razor sharp fangs that wear away her lips, making it bleed a lot, as smoke continues billowing out of it. Her ears grow long and pointy, and horns emerge from out of her skull, blood flowing at their base. Her eyes seem to no longer exist, and all of her hair falls away to the floor.

All that is left is a monster.

One of Ren's guns pops out of his sleeve and he holds it under Nora's chin. He clenches his eyes shut, thought the tears still flow, and grits his teeth.

"It's going to be okay." He says with a sob. "You were a good teammate."

"I love you."

The gunshot reverberates throughout the hallways. The sounds seem deafening to Ruby.


A/N: Yeah. So that happened. Need some fries with your salt? Thanks for reading btw!